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1. Provide a brief overview of your interview with a Corporate Compliance Officer. Specifically, tell us the type of organization, something about the organization (e.g. number of patients they serve, number of employees, is it a not-for-profit or for-profit organization), individual(s) you interviewed, and more significant strengths and weaknesses that you identified. 3 - 4 pages
Notes: Type of Organization is - Healthcare facility, veterans Affairs hospital
Individuals interviewed is - Ricardo Vega, Compliance officer at department of veterans affairs
Not for profit organization
2. the term zero-base budgeting (ZBB) was first introduced to the public in a 1970 article by Peter A. Pyhrr in the Harvard Business Review and soon and dropped out of favor, primarily because it was such a laborious process. There are some sign that zero based budgeting is reemerging as health care organization face an increasing competitive environment, seek to implement new enhancement, and cost avoidance activities, and try to capture new market niches. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of zero-based budgeting. Why it is so unique to the health care industry?
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Running Head: INTERVIEW WITH A CORPORATE COMPLIANCE OFFICE
Interview with a Corporate Compliance Office
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Question 1
The interview was conducted with Ricardo Vega, the compliance officer at the
department of veteran’s affairs. The interviewee works at the Veterans Affairs hospital a
healthcare facility. Veteran Affairs is a government-based organization that operates the United
States’ biggest integrated healthcare structure. It consists of an accumulated 1,700 and more
community living centers, clinics, hospitals, clinics readjustment counseling centers, and many
other facilities. The compliance officer position at the facility is essential to maintain the
integrity of the healthcare structure. Ricardo Vega ensures that the Veteran Affairs complies with
global and US-based regulations and laws that pertain to the healthcare delivery and the
professional standards that are acceptable (Godleski et al., 2012).
According to Ricardo, the Veteran Affairs has helped in the enrollment of over nine
million veterans over the years. Their mission is to “Honor America’s Veterans by providing
exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.” In 2013, the veteran affair
was responsible for 5.69 million patients; the VA health care system had 8.92 million enrolled
people, VA disability compensation was provided for 3.84 million veterans and over seventy
thousand trainees on the VA vocational rehabilitation. This makes them one of the world largest
healthcare organization that is dedicated to helping the society and the veterans to assume normal
lives (Godleski et al., 2012).
To work at the Veteran Affairs as the compliance officer, one must be able to
communicate the compliance-related issues effectively to personnel across all healthcare
facilities in the organization. According to Ricardo Vega, this sometimes involves deciphering
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